Letters to the Editor
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being back-
from Egypt with a sad sense of defeat about our inability to "deconstruct" torture via the deconstruction of a Pyramid - and confronted with the same old same old (Yoo) i would like to suggest another "experiment" which produced much better results in the past.
Let's call it "YU" and it is nothing else than a newer and more "hip" version of the "Gestalt therapy" some of the "Hippies" on this blog might be familiar with.
To start this "therapy" you should bring together a group of friends or members of your family in the next days. They all have to be "familiar" with the history of Yoo - his torture memos and the biographies of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell and also the history of McCain.
You will invite them in your home - and you will sit them down in your living room and tell them: "Imagine, that you are in the White House" (i know this sounds silly but it is always a "good opening" and it helps a lot of your friends or your family to relax and open their minds for an experience, which actually could be quite stressful for them)
You will ask each of them if they are willing to play "some kind of "game" where they not only have to play a role - They have to reach as deep as possible into the mind of the person they are "playing"- and if they feel a strong "resistance" they will not have to "play" it (because there never should be any type of "force")
If you got all your "yus" together (i don't like the world "players", because it somehow sounds too "frivolous") - you start collecting your thoughts!!
You slowly get up and you walk over to the first of your friends and you ask him: Would you like to be John Yoo?!
If he agrees - you take him by the shoulders and you walk him into the middle of the room and you say "I place you here as John Voo"! -
And - one by one you place all the other ones around him -
and if you feel some resistance in some of your "yus" about being placed to close to some of the other ones you will know that the "game" has begun and you will influence it by questions and by leading your "yus" in a responsible way through it and if somebody breaks down crying you will release him right away from his role and - you will watch what happens in amazement...
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and-
you will receive a lot of answers of questions you haven't even asked!
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okay
Distribute cake and our some sassafras tea. You got an obsession with cheese cake? Double cheese, melted cheese, cheesy sauce, cheese twisty, cheese sticks, and everybody say, Cheese.
Arnie,
Cheers.
Yea for pieceofcheesecake!
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More foolishness ...
Two less-than-brilliant men hired a boat and went fishing. The men caught some fine fish. When they were going home, one said to the other, "How are we going to make our way back to that wonderful fishing place again?" The second said, "I thought of that -- I marked the boat with chalk!" "You fool!" said the first. "That's no good. Supposing next time they give us a different boat?"
The wise man can see that he often plays one of those parts in his own life. :-)
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that was "cheesy" -
and a "good family therapy" is always "a cry" far far away from it -
It can be scary -
It can be depressing - but it always is a revelation!
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Chris Floyd
http://chris-floyd.com/content/view/1485/135/
Too Much of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End
Sunday, 13 April 2008The President of the United States has openly, proudly admitted that he approved the use of interrogation methods that are by every measure -- including the measure of United States law -- criminal acts of torture. It is one of the most brazen and scandalous confessions of wrongdoing ever uttered by an American leader -- and it has had no impact whatsoever. No scandal, no outcry, no protest, no prosecution.
This pattern has recurred over and over throughout the Bush Administration. Bush and his minions commit crimes and atrocities in secret; they move heaven and earth to conceal their filthy deeds; they squirm and squeal like panicked rats when their some small portion of their evil comes to light; they belch forth a relentless series of self-contradictory lies to cover up, obfuscate or explain away the crimes; and when at last their malefactions can no longer be denied, they trot out the president himself to say: "Yeah, we did it; so what?" And then....nothing happens.
And now nothing is happening again.
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- - Chris Floyd
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Sysprog, wow, ain't THAT the truth!
Floyd's entire post is definitely worth the read.
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Duh!
Emptywheel at FDL has a good piece this morning, with a plausible theory for the MSM"s befuddlement over last week's ABC News story on the White House "principals."
Lots of head-scratching for days on end it seems.
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Naysayer Floyd
"Yeah, we did it; so what?" And then....nothing happens.
And now nothing is happening again.
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- - Chris Floyd
-- sysprog
Oh that chicken little pessimist Floyd. How dare he!? Trying to depress us when we are up. Up I say! Doesn't he know we are winning? Can't he tell from all the back patting going around lately?
Something is happening. People are writing letters and trying to decide which democrat to vote for! Everything is just fine. We are moving along... I mean look, there were about 3 articles in the establishment media about the torture memos and Glenn's new book is out... can't Floyd recognize real progress when he sees it?
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Donald Graham & Fred Hiatt et. al.: "The proxy war in Iraq is just one front in a much larger Iranian offensive."
From the Washington Post Editorial Board (sometimes personified as "Fred Hiatt" but powerful precisely because it's NOT only Fred Hiatt:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201848_pf.html
The Washington Post > Print Edition > Editorial Pages
Sunday, April 13, 2008; Page B-6Countering Iran
Tehran's 'special groups' in Iraq are just one element of a regional threat.[...] In theory, a popular backlash against Iran's military adventurism could be nurtured across the Middle East.
It nevertheless is inevitable that Iran's proxies in Iraq, Gaza and Lebanon will have to be countered in part by military force [...]
- - Washington Post Editorial Board, Sunday, April 13, 2008
And here we go for yet another round of the tired old song, "Even that Commie Rag, the Washington Pravda, oops I mean Post, has an editorial . . ."